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Create a navigation menu with three links

Description: Create a menu named Top Menu with three items: Home (the home page address), About (a page of your site) and Docs (the link https://wordpress.org/documentation/). List the items.

Hint:

  • wp menu create, wp menu item add-post and wp menu item add-custom.

Solution

Terminal output

$ wp post create –post_type=page –post_title="About" –post_status=publish –porcelain
5
$ wp menu create "Top Menu"
Success: Created menu 2.
$ wp menu item add-custom top-menu "Home" http://example.com/
Success: Menu item added.
$ wp menu item add-post top-menu 5 –title="About"
Success: Menu item added.
$ wp menu item add-custom top-menu "Docs" https://wordpress.org/documentation/
Success: Menu item added.
$ wp menu item list top-menu –fields=db_id,title,type,link
db_id title type link
6 Home custom http://example.com/
7 About post_type http://example.com/about/
8 Docs custom https://wordpress.org/documentation/

How it works

  • A menu is a term of the taxonomy nav_menu. Each link is a post of the type nav_menu_item.
  • A custom item keeps any URL, while add-post links to a page or post by ID and keeps the link updated.

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